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Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur are reportedly set to compete for the signature of FC Barcelona’s Frenkie de Jong.
United have been linked to the Dutchman because the summer time of 2022 after they had a €85 million charge accepted from the Spanish membership.
Nonetheless, De Jong rejected the possibility to hitch his former supervisor Erik ten Hag at United and the Crimson Devils went on to signal Casemiro that summer time from Actual Madrid.
Spanish outlet Fichajes is adamant that United, alongside Tottenham, nonetheless maintain a significant curiosity in buying the midfielder.
“Frenkie de Jong, one of many key gamers in Barcelona’s squad, might be near leaving Camp Nou,” the outlet stories.
“The Dutch midfielder has attracted the curiosity of a number of Premier League giants, with Tottenham being the membership that has been most insistent in latest days in making an attempt to safe his providers. This curiosity is added to that of Manchester United, who’ve been carefully following the participant’s state of affairs for a while, though now direct competitors appears to have emerged between the 2 English golf equipment.”
In a contemporary twist to the story, it’s added that lastly De Jong could be able to embrace curiosity from overseas and willingly depart the Catalan giants.
It’s claimed that the choice to let the “elementary” midfielder go will not be a simple one for Barcelona however the monetary wants of the membership might “tip the steadiness”.
Curiously, it’s acknowledged that “the potential for exploring a brand new problem within the Premier League and the temptation of an formidable venture might seduce the participant.”
The 27 yr outdated’s means to deal with the ball below stress and exact passing are seen as very enticing qualities to each United and Spurs.
The Spanish web site concludes by stating that Ruben Amorim maintains United’s long-standing curiosity within the Dutch worldwide as an “historic switch” might be triggered within the close to future.
De Jong would definitely deliver a degree of passing to the United midfield that can seemingly be misplaced as soon as Christian Eriksen leaves however it’s debatable whether or not he would have the bodily depth that Amorim appears to crave in gamers.
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